By National Fire Protection Association NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code, 2015 Edition [Paperback]

By National Fire Protection Association NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code, 2015 Edition [Paperback]

Building on its successful risk-based approach, the 2015 edition of NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code improves usability for better health care safety. The 2015 edition NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code provides performance criteria for health care facilities that builds on the risk-based approach introduced in the 2012 NFPA 99, where it is the risk posed to patients and staff, not the type of building, that defines safety guidelines. Provisions govern installation, inspection, testing, maintenance, performance, and safe practices for facilities, material, equipment, and appliances -- including medical gas and vacuum systems formerly found in NFPA 99C. Major changes in the 2015 NFPA 99 make performance criteria more usable, enforceable, and adoptable. Other revisions respond to new information and the evolving industry. Keep health care facilities up-to-code and patients and staff safe. The 2015 NFPA 99 is a must-have resource for everyone involved in health care safety including contractors, engineers, facility managers, AHJs, plumbers, gas and vacuum system installers, security personnel, insurance companies, and manufacturers. (Softbound, 207 pp., 2015)